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Webster 1913 Edition


Embezzlement

Em-bez′zle-ment

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Noun.
The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted;
as, the
embezzlement
by a clerk of his employer’s money;
embezzlement
of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.
Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.

Webster 1828 Edition


Embezzlement

EMBEZ'ZLEMENT

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Noun.
The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use, the money or goods entrusted to one's care and management. An accurate account of the embezzlements of public money would form a curious history.
1.
The thing appropriated.

Definition 2024


embezzlement

embezzlement

English

Noun

embezzlement (plural embezzlements)

  1. (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

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